Traumatic cataract, with results of eighty-two operations : read before the International Opthalmological Congress, held in London, August, 1872 / by J.R. Wolfe, M.D., F.R.C.S.E.

  • Wolfe, J. R. (John Reisberg), 1824-1904.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Traumatic cataract, with results of eighty-two operations : read before the International Opthalmological Congress, held in London, August, 1872 / by J.R. Wolfe, M.D., F.R.C.S.E. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (as far as I can learn, upwards of two years) in the anterior chamber, where it formed partial adhesions to the cornea, and the whole iris greatly atrophied. The patient was considered as hopelessly blind ; and it was only after the eye was injured by a fall, which excited cyclitis, that the Secretary of the Glasgow Mission to the Blind, under whose superintendence he was, sent him to us for relief. Daniel B., aged 59, shoemaker, of Greenock, was ad- mitted into the Glasgow Ophthalmic Institution in March 1871. The patient’s right eye was completely atrophied; the left eye was cataractous. A large lens, with a hard amber-coloured nucleus, filled the anterior chamber, and partly adhered to Descemet’s membrane by two spots at its lower portion. The iris was completely pushed out of sight and covered by the lens. I extracted by a small flap. He was cured, with good sight. The methods which I have adopted are the following :— 1. Linear extraction with the lance without or with iridectomy. 2 The Author’s method.' 3 Curvo-linear corneal incision with Graefe’s knife. Fig. I. represents the linear extraction with lance. The patient being under chloroform, and the eye- . lids held open by a speculum, I seize the conjunctiva and the subconjunctival tissues with a blunt forceps, either in the upper or in the lower vertical meridian, at a distance of about a sixth of an inch from the *An improved method of extraction of Cataract with results of 107 operations. J. Churchill & Son, 1868.